the coup was orchestrated by britain and america. for the first time, the u.s. intelligence community has released documents proving the cia rule -- role in this overthrow. november, 1979. a group of iranian students stormed the u.s. embassy in tehran, taking its staff hostage. these young supporters of ayatollah khomeini did not want history to repeat itself. >> part of the rationale of the students who did that is they were worried that there would be in 1953, andlike they wanted to preempt that. 1953, ciasummer of operatives acted to topple the democratically elected prime minister. failure to resolve the crisis over the oil industry. these historic events shaped the way up both countries -- the way both countries see each other. different ideas of separate episodes as the beginnings of the trouble between our countries. actually,ct is that one is a product of the other. the hostage crisis, although we did not realize it at the time, was a delayed reaction to the 1953 coup. years after the coup, the election of a moderate iranian president offers the hope of